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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Possible UFO in Kansas mystery solved

I said many moons ago that most people will be acclimated to believe that UFOs are only military aircraft/drones. This is a great example. Yes, that is a military drone on the truck bed as the ones pictured on the right X-47B unmanned drones built by NorthropGrumman. NorthropGrumman hasn't admitted to receiving any extraterrestrial technology, and that's good enough for most people.

It's now safe for the people to go back to sleep and forget about all that UFO nonsense.

Residents of Cowley County, Kansas caused a sensation last week when they captured
video of the military towing a concealed object on a flatbed truck down US
Highway 77. It wasn't long before a wave of speculation hit, claiming the
object was a UFO.
Depending on the angle from which you spotted it, the 30 foot-wide mysterious
craft appeared to be saucer-shaped. It was so large that local law enforcement
had to remove roadside signage so it could pass through. But it was covered in a
tightly concealed tarp, making any further examination impossible.

Local sheriff Don Read announced that the tarp was in fact covering a flying
object, but one of decidedly Earthly origins. More specifically, it was a drone
aircraft manufactured by Northrop
Grumman. After Read's disclosure, Northrop Grumman senior manager of public
relations Brooks McKinney stepped forward to provide more details, telling Life's
Little Mysteries that the "UFO" is a X-47B unmanned combat drone designed to
operate from aircraft carriers. It was headed to the Naval Air Station Patuxent
River, Maryland.
Drone technology, or Unmanned Systems (UMS) have become so commonplace, that
Northrop Grumman
has a section dedicated to them on its public website. There's even
a page for the X-47B itself.

"Clearly people are interested in what's going through town. It's unusual to
see a shrink-wrapped aircraft, especially one with that shape," McKinney
said.

"We built two for the Navy, they were being tested at Edwards Air Force Base
[in California] since March. One is on its way to Maryland, and the other will
remain in California."

And the reason they weren't actually flying the high-tech aircraft was even
simpler. "It's difficult to fly an unmanned drone through commercial airspace,"
McKinney said.

Finally, the question "What's the matter with Kansas?" can be answered: A
painful lack of alien spaceships.